The moon will block the sun in a unique solar eclipse on Sunday, offering a potentially dazzling solar sight for skywatchers in parts of Asia and North America. But if you live anywhere else on the planet, don't fret – you can watch the solar eclipse online, too. And there are many webcasts to choose from.

Today's annular solar eclipse begins in southern China (where the local time is May 21) at about 6:06 p.m. EDT (2206 GMT) and gradually makes its way eastward over 3 1/2 hours to cross the northern Pacific Ocean to the western United States, where it will end in northern Texas at local sunset. The peak eclipse views will be along a path about 186 miles wide (300 km) and 8,450 miles long (13,600 km), according to NASA eclipse expert Fred Espenak.

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Here's a look at several live webcasts of solar eclipse, beginning with the online Slooh Space Camera, which is offering views from several different observatories around the world beginning at 5:30 p.m. EDT (2130 GMT). Slooh will track the eclipse as it leaves Japan and makes landfall on the western U.S., with viewers able to snap images from the website to share online.

The U.S. National Parks Service will webcast the solar eclipse live from 9 p.m. to 12 a.m. EDT (0100 to 0400 May 21 GMT) from Petroglyph National Monument in Albuquerque, N.M. You can see the feed directly here or view it below:

The Hong Kong Observatory and Hong Kong SpaceMuseum are providing a joint feed, letting the world see the eclipse from the vantage point of the huge city in southern China. Webcast available here starting at 5:41 p.m. EDT (2241 GMT).

According to Sky and Telescope, the electronics company Panasonic will also broadcast live eclipse footage from the top of Japan's iconic Mt. Fuji, The broadcast crew will scale the 12,390-foot (3,776-meter) peak with the aid of climbing guides. Panasonic's feed can be found below:

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Tariq joined Purch's Space.com team in 2001 as a staff writer, and later editor, covering human spaceflight, exploration and space science. He became Space.com's Managing Editor in 2009. Before joining Space.com, Tariq was a staff reporter for The Los Angeles Times. He is also an Eagle Scout (yes, he has the Space Exploration merit bage) and went to Space Camp four times. He has journalism degrees from the University of Southern California and New York University. To see his latest project, you can follow Tariq on Google+, Twitter and on Facebook.